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This solitary mushroom was found a the West Coast forest. Please help me identify it.

The spore print is cinnamon rusty brown, the cap is 5 cm in diametre, it smells fruity, the stem is 5 cm long (fragile, stains tan) but the most distinctive features are the frilly gills, and fluted edge. The cap appears torn and is very solid. It is convex. The flesh is light salmon coloured.

The fluting is not a normal feature of the mushroom. I have seen much smaller versions on a wider variety of mushrooms, most recently some Laccaria laccata. Your specimen just shows the most extreme example of it I've ever seen. For identification, treat the mushroom as though the fluting doesn't exist.

Okay, yes, that is helpful advice, thank you. I still can't identify the mushroom though, so I will have to look in a more comprehensive guidebook, and try to stop obsessing about naming it. No matter what it is called it is simply beautiful!

My mystery mushroom has cinnamon-rust coloured spores. Are Entolomas usually pink spored? Why is the available information not complete. My guide "The New Wild Savoury Mushroom" is a pretty good book but has no listing for Entolomas. I can barely wait to lay my hands on a more comprehensive fungus guide...